MICHAEL LYNCH
BORN
1950, American
AFFILIATIONS
Chelsea Arts Club in London
National Academy of Western Art
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Minnesota Museum of American Art
Hughes Aircraft
American Express
Deloitte & Touche
REPRESENTED BY
Robert Wilson-Nantucket
Wells, Charleston, SC
Keating, Basalt, CO
Mad Creek, Steamboat Springs, CO
Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Afternoon Pattern - Arroyo Seco, N.M.
Michael Lynch
30" x 40" Oil on Linen
Private Collection -- Kyoto, Japan
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
When a subject first flashes upon an artist he delights in it as a painted or drawn thing, and feels instinctively the treatment it will require.
In good draftsmanship the thing felt will guide and govern everything. Every touch will be instinct with the thrill of the first impression. The craftsman mind, so laboriously built up, should by now be an instinct, a second nature, at the direction of a higher consciousness.
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For me, painting comes more naturally than talking about painting. I would like to defer to a 1917 quote by Harold Speed, whose words most closely meet my feeling on the subject: